Been to a museum recently?
Have you been to a museum recently? I have.
I can only remember visiting one museum in the last, possibly 15 years. I have been to the odd art gallery now and then, the Tate Modern most recently, but not a proper natural history museum with bones, and spears, and pots and dinosaurs and things.
That’s why [...]
Politics is dead to me
Lorelle has set the challenge:Write a political post. This is a topic I tend to avoid as it has a tendency to bring out the combative side in people. When tensions run high I usually take the step back approach. But a challenge is a challenge.
The title says a lot. I quite like politics, it [...]
Does anything ever end?
I first wrote this post 14 hours ago, and for whatever reason it didn’t save. This is my second, and as a result potentially less elegant, post about the idea that everything does, will, and always has existed.
I probably ought to explain that I have started reading A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. [...]
The healthcare question
You wake up one morning in a hospital bed, you don’t know how you got there and you don’t remember much about the past few weeks. It is explained to you that you recently collapsed and that upon investigation it appears that you have a life threatening illness. You are glad that you are in [...]
Challenge Yourself: Read about someone else
I have recently been drawn to lots of different topics and have bought a fair number of books. While considering what I wanted to read it occurred to me that we usually only choose books about things we agree with.
This is a good point made by many people that disagree with the new atheist’s works, [...]